Birthday Honours 2017
Professor William BUCHANAN OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
“Professor of Computing and Director, Centre for Networking, Security and Distributed Systems, Edinburgh Napier University. For services to Cyber Security.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Professor of Computing and Director, Centre for Networking, Security and Distributed Systems, Edinburgh Napier University. For services to Cyber Security.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
17 June 2017
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor William BUCHANAN
Professor of Computing and Director, Centre for Networking, Security and Distributed Systems, Edinburgh Napier University
For services to Cyber Security.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61961 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2017
London Gazette (official record), issue 61961, notice 2804232. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2017).
Published 14 June 2017.
Location (Edinburgh) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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